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Poli, Roberto

Poli, Roberto

Research Professor at the University of Trento, Italy

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Research Professor at the University of Trento, Italy

Roberto Poli has been awarded the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems (2014-2017) and has been nominated fellow of the STIAS—Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Poli is editor-in-chief of Axiomathes (Springer), and editor of the series Categories (De Gruyter). Poli is elected President of the Nicolai Hartmann Society (2010-2014).

His research interests include (1) anticipatory systems, i.e. system able to take decisions according to their possible future development; (2) ontology, in both its traditional philosophical understanding and the new, computer-oriented, understanding; (3) the theory of values and the concept of person. Poli has published five books, edited or co-edited more than 20 books or journal’s special issues and published more than 150 scientific papers. Details from the website (http://www.unitn.it/biblioteca/13608/catalogo-produzione-scientifica-u-gov). Poli teaches Social Foresight, Applied Ethics, and Philosophy at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Trento.